Run3.Exe

I'm a total Run fan (the flash game) much like everyone else when they were younger and played Coolmath games in class, I like the newer games, but I don't mind playing the classics. I don't think I've ever played glitchy or hacked games before, though I don't think I want to play any after the experience I had...

It started on a nice summer afternoon, I was playing The Henry Stickmin Collection (I loved all of the references, at least the ones I understood) until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I went to go see what I got in the mail... The only thing in the Mailbox was a CD case for computers and a note. I took it inside.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Chris (Let's just call him that), whom I hadn't heard from in 2 weeks. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Chris was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote...

"(My name),

I can't take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you'd do it for me. I can't do it, he's after me, and if you don't destroy this CD, he'll come after you too, he's too fast for me....

Please (My name), destroy this god-forsaken disc before he comes after you too, it's too late for me.

Destroy the disc, and you'll destroy him, but do it quick otherwise he'll catch you. Don't even play the game, it's what he wants, just destroy it.

Please...

Chris"

Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Chris IS my best friend and I haven't seen him in 2 weeks, I didn't do what he asked me. I didn't think that a simple gaming disc would do anything bad to him, after all it's just a game right? Boy, was I wrong about that...

ANY way, I looked at the disc and it looks like any ordinary computer CD-R disc, except it had black marker on it written "RUN3.EXE", and it was much unlike Chris's handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw "RUN3" on the writing of the CD, I was actually excited and wanted to play it, since I'm a a BIG Run 3 fan.

I went up to my room and turned on my computer and put the disc in and installed the game. When the title screen popped up I noticed that it was the third Run game, I was like "Awesome!" Because like I said earlier I loved Run 3. The first thing I noticed that was out of place was that there was music playing, it was the music of the Thorns cutscene from Friday Night Funkin', only it was extended and seemed to have been in reverse. I was very confused about it, though I figured that it was just a glitch and forgot about it.

Then I actually used more than 2 of my braincells to figure out that it wasn't a glitchy game, it was a hacked game. Yeah it definitely looked hacked, it was really creepy, but as a smart gamer, I wasn't scared, I told myself that it was just a hacked game and there's nothing wrong with that.

I noticed I was unable to play as the Skater, which was disappointing, so I chose to play as the Runner. When I pressed Galaxy Mode, there's was a split second when I saw the title image turned into something much different, something that I now consider horrifying, before cutting to black. I remember what the image looked like in that split second before the game cut to black; all of the text on the buttons had changed to "run", the 3 on the "Run 3" was gone and the "Run" was in all red, the amount of power cells/batteries was 666, and all of the characters except the Skater were crossed out. (Even the Runner on the button on the left corner of the screen to view the cutscenes was crossed out too.)

But the freakiest thing that was in that split second frame was the Skater, his eyes were pitch black and bleeding with two glowing red dots staring RIGHT AT ME, and his smile had stretched wider up to the edge of his face. His antennae was a solid black, and his hands and skates were covered in blood. I was rather disturbed about that image when I saw it. After it cut to black it stayed like that for about 40 seconds or so.

I heard a creepy pixelated laugh that sounded an awful lot like the Omega Flowey laugh from Undertale before cutting to black.

The screen stayed black for about 10 seconds or more, then it started on Level 1, revealing Runner in the level, the music was different though, it sounded like a peaceful melody in reverse. Anyway I started playing and had the Runner jump over the thing at the start like you would at the start of the game. What was odd was that as Runner was running along the level there was nothing but flat ground and no holes to jump over for 5 minutes, that was when the peaceful music started to lower down into slow deep tones very slowly as I kept going.

I suddenly saw something and I stopped to see what it was; it was one of the aliens lying dead on the ground bleeding (That was when the music started to slow down), Runner had stopped and jumped back in shock at what she saw, so I had her move along. As she kept moving I saw more dead aliens as Runner moved past them as the music lowers and she moves past more dead animals, I was shocked to see how they all died, they looked like somebody killed them in rather gruesome ways; one was hanged on from the ceiling with what appeared to be their entrails hanging out, another had all four of their limbs torn off and another had their eye gouged out and a cut below it mouth. I felt sick to my stomach when I saw this massacre. After a few more seconds there were no more aliens and the music seemed to have stopped, I still kept Runner to continue, since you can't stop running, if you didn't know.

After a minute passed after the music stopped, Runner had stopped, it wasn't until I saw why. A cutscene had started. Skater was there on the other side of the screen with his back against Runner with his eye closed and arms crossed. Runner looked happy to see Skater but then her smile faltered, obviously noticing that Skater wasn't responding to her, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Runner's presence. Runner had walked slowly toward Skater.

Suddenly I began to have a growing feel of dread as Runner walked closer to Skater to get his attention, I felt that Runner was in danger and something bad was going to happen. I heard faint static growing louder as Runner was but inches away from Skater and stopped and stuck her hand out to touch him. That foreboding feeling in my gut was growing stronger and I felt the urge to tell Runner to get away from Skater as the static grew louder.

Suddenly in a split second I saw Skater's eyes open and they were black with those red glowing dots, just like that title image, thought there wasn't a smile. When that happened the screen turned black and the static sound was off.

It stayed black for about 7 seconds and then white text appeared forming a message, saying, "Hello. Do you want to play with me?"

At this point I was creeped out, I didn't want to continue with the game, but I had nothing else to do, then I was taken to a different level with the level title now saying "HIDE AND SEEK".

This time I was in somewhere in Level 11-20 and it looked like everything was on fire.

Runner looked as though she was scared out of her wits this time. She actually looked at me and made frantic gestures to me as if she wanted to get out of the area she was in as fast as possible. I was starting to get freaked out by this...I mean Runner was actually breaking the fourth wall, trying to tell me to get her out of there.

So I pressed W as hard as I could and made her run as fast as she could, a pixelated version of that creepy theme when the power goes out in FNaF1 was playing as I made Runner trek through the desolate tunnel, trying to help her escape from whatever she was trying to run from.

Suddenly I heard that creepy laugh again... that awful, Flowey laugh... right after 10 seconds have passed as I helped Runner run through the tunnel, and then I started seeing flashes of Skater popping everywhere on the screen, again with those black and red eyes.

The music changed to that suspenseful drowning jingle from that one Sonic game as I see Skater behind Runner slowly gaining up on her FLYING; Skater wasn't running, he was actually FLYING! The flying pose his sprite was making had him with the blood stains on his hands and skates, and with his blackened antennae, and presumably those black and red eyes as he gained up on her.

Suddenly when Runner tripped (another cut scene) the music stopped and Skater vanished. Runner laid there and started crying a bit for 15 seconds. The scene was rather upsetting to watch and I kind of teared up myself. But then Skater appeared right in front of Runner and Runner looked up in horror.

Blood started to come down those blackened eyes of Skater's as a grin slowly grew from his face as he looked down at the horrified alien, I could do nothing but watch.

Just in a split second Skater lunged at Runner right before the screen went black, there was a loud screeching noise that only lasted 5 seconds. The text returned only this time it said "You're too slow, want to try again?" and then that god-awful laugh came with it.

I was so shocked by what had happened...did Skater murder Runner? He and Runner are supposed to be friends, right? Why did Skater do that to her?

I shook the shock off as I was brought back to the main menu, Runner was now a darker shade of grey; her antennae was also a darker shade of grey, and blood was coming out of where her eye would normally be. I noticed I couldn't play as her anymore. Trying to ignore it I picked the Lizard next.

The laugh came again and the screen cut to black again and stayed there for another 10 seconds, this time the level said "YOU CAN'T RUN".

I was really freaked out by now, I couldn't really tell if this was a hack, or some kind of sick twisted joke... or anything really. But despite my fear of what happened next, I kept playing.

The next level looked different, the tunnel was green, but the space background looked like red static. But it was the music that creeped me out the most: It sounded like Giygas' theme right after you beat Pokey in Earthbound. Another cutscene played and it showed that Lizard looked afraid just like Runner did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved and confused. He broke the fourth wall just like Runner and looked as if he wasn't sure about going on, but after the cutscene he moved anyway.

He ran down the pathway in this dark level, and as he did the screen started to flicker red static a couple times and then that maddening laugh came again.

Then after a few seconds of running I notice several bloodstains on the...(wait what the fuck is the ground made of) ground, I felt a growing sense of fear again thinking something horrible is going to happen to Lizard, but I still kept him going.

Suddenly as Lizard ran, Skater appeared right in front of him with that black and red eye and then red static appeared again, when the static vanished showing nothing but black screen with text saying "FOuNd YOu!", I was now scared, Skater found Lizard already?! What was going on?!

Anyway red static came again and then I was back to the level, as another cutscene played, Lizard looked like he was panicking, and Skater was nowhere to be found. And this time that high-pitched squealing from the Silent Hill 1's final boss was playing.

Suddenly Skater appeared right behind Lizard in what appeared to be black smoke, Lizard turned and tried to hit Skater, but Skater vanished in black smoke before he could even land a hit, that terrible laugh went off again. Then Skater appeared behind Knuckles again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Lizard was panicking even more, and even I felt like I was going crazy, Skater was practically playing with us, he was playing a sick twisted little mind game with me and Lizard...

Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing. Then Skater appeared behind Lizard again and then he tried to hit him again, and Skater vanished again laughing.

Lizarded fell to his knees and clutched his head sobbing, I felt his agony, Skater was actually driving us BOTH crazy.

And then in a split second Skater lunged at Lizard and the screen went black with another distorted screeching noise that lasted for at least 3 seconds.

Another text message appeared, "So many souls to play with, so little time... would you agree?"

What the hell... Just what is going on? I started to think Skater was actually trying to talk to me through the game... But I was too scared to think that.

I was brought back to the main menu and this time Lizard was a solid red, with his outline and spikes a darker red. I began to think that those are the actual characters trapped in there on the menu, but I couldn't believe it... I didn't want to believe it...

So I shut off the game and took a break. I took a nap, wish I hadn't, 'cause I then began to have the most disturbing nightmare, I was in pitch black darkness, though I was under the light given off by a lamp that hung high above my head. I could hear the cries of who I presumed to be Runner and Lizard nearby. They were saying stuff like, "Help us..." and "Why did you give us to him?" and "Run away, before he gets you too..."

Their cries died out as I then heard Skater laugh, his laugh... it sounded a lot like the distorted Omega Flowey laugh.

"You're a lot fun to play with kid, just like your friend Chris, though he didn't last long..."

I was scared and looking around for the source of the voice...

"Won't be long now until you join him and all my other friends..."

I saw him slowly skate toward me, flickering in and out in several directions...

"You can't run, kid. You're in my world now. Just like the others..."

When he grabbed me and I saw his bleeding black and red-eyed, grinning face, I woke up with a fright.

After a couple of hours I decided to continue playing the game. I don't know why, but I had to know, I had to figure out why this was happening... So I turned on the computer, turned on the game and selected the Gentleman next.

The level title appeared again and this time it said "...", which I found really freaky.

This time I was in a tunnel, but didn't really look like it was from any of the Run games, though it has the style; the ground was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight's and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Every 12 seconds or so that red curtain sways very slowly, but whenever you're playing the game you can barely see it move. The music was oddly pleasant, a piano playing a rather sad yet peaceful song, but I knew better, this was the song "Unsafe Speeds" the song that played when you play as Skater, only it wasn't in reverse.

A cutscene played that showed the Gentleman nervous like Runner and Lizard did, but he did have a suspicious look on his face as if he was paranoid. He turns his head to the left and then to the right at least twice and then shrugs at me, as if he has no idea where he was or what was going on. Even though I was scared outta my mind about what was going to happen, I had Gentleman continue onward after the cutscene ended. He did his usual running animation as we continued going through the hallway.

Then he stop at a long flight of stairs leading downward, now I was nervous, even Gentleman seemed unsure of himself, though I pressed onward.

As I led Gentleman down the stairs, I noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. Then we landed onto another hallway, this one was longer than the last one (or at least it felt like it) and then we headed down another flight of stairs down, this one was much longer, took at least 1 full minute.

And then I heard that horrid Flowey laugh again and then the music slowly faded until it was quiet, as it did the walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now.

When Gentleman landed onto the 3rd hallway, yet another cutscene played. I noticed he now looked really creeped out, I couldn't blame him, I was scared too.

Suddenly, Skater popped right in front of Gentleman the same way he did Lizard and then red static. The red static lasted for about 15 second and then it showed me a most unpleasant image...

The image showed a hyper-realistic of Skater standing in the darkness where you can only see his face and one of his antennae while the rest of his body faded into black, and when I say hyper-realistic, I mean like he looked so real, it was like you could feel his skin if you touched the screen.

His face...oh god, he had the most horrifying smile I had ever seen.

And that's saying something considering I saw that image at the start of the game.

His eyes are wide and black and once again crying blood (Which also looked hyper-realistic) and there were two small glowing red dots in those black eyes staring RIGHT AT ME, as if staring into my mind. His grin was wide and demonic, it literally stretched to the sides of his face like a Cheshire Cat except Skater had fangs, VERY SHARP fangs, much like the Werehog's teeth except more vicious-looking, somewhat yellowish and from the look of it, he had stains of blood and small bits of grey flesh on his lips and fangs as if he ate some creature.

I stared at that gruesome image for a good 30 seconds, never taking my eyes off it, I felt as if he was actually looking at me, smiling at me...that face, it just took 10 seconds for it to etch itself into my brain for good.

Then the screen flickered with red static again 3 times, and on the 3rd time I heard the Omega Flowey laugh, except this time it sounded distorted, demonic even...

It went back to the image again except this time there was the text again though it was messed up, but it was pretty much one of the most horrifying things I looked at since I had this game...

"I AM GOD."

It was when I read that message while looking at Skater when it hit me, I realized right there and then.

This Skater was a monster, a pure evil, sadistic, all-powerful, nightmarish, demented monster... and all of his victims, including Runner, Lizard, Gentleman and possibly Chris, are just his little toys, and the game is the very gateway into his chaotic, nightmarish world and the very Hell his victims are trapped in.

Suddenly in an actual split second I screamed as Skater lunged at the screen screeching loudly with his mouth wide open to an unnatural length revealing nothing but a literally spiraling abyss of pure darkness before the red static came again, this time much louder and distorted, so loud that it hurt my ears, I yelled and grabbed my ears as the red static screeched for a good 7 seconds.

Then it stopped and showed nothing but black screen.

As I sat there staring at the black screen, one last text came up.

"Ready for Round 2, (My real name)?"

That god fucking damn Omega Flowey laugh, now sounding more clear as if Skater was right behind me, played again 3 times as I looked at that text in shock and confusion.

Then I got booted back to the main menu and this time Gentleman looked like he was in the same, tormented state as Runner and Lizard; His skin had turned a darker shade of grey, like Runner, his top hat was ripped in half from the top, and there was blood coming down from where his eye would be.

I looked at Runner, Lizard, and Gentleman and I cried a bit, I pitied them for the agony they're going through, they were forever trapped within the game, forever tormented by that horrid alien, and always will be.

Then the computer shut itself off, I couldn't turn it back on no matter what I did.

I sat there for maybe 25 seconds, horrified by what had just happened...

Skater is the very embodiment of evil, he tortures people who play his game in more ways than one and then when he gets bored he drags you into the game, literally drags you to Hell, where he can play with you always, as his toy....

I can't get the game outta my computer. I think it's stuck in there, but at least I managed to turn it back on now.

After I sat there for 25 seconds I heard a voice right behind me, like a whisper...

"Try to keep this interesting for me, (My name)."

I turned around to see where the voice came from, and what I saw made me scream...

Sitting on my bed... staring right at me...

... Was a Skater plushie, with blackened antennae, smiling with bloodstains on it's hands, skates, and under its eye.

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